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Coaches Schiano & Smith were on quite the recruiting trail today in Florida visiting American Heritage, Coconut Creek, Chaminade & St. Thomas Aquinas.
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URBAN MEYER SAYS OHIO STATE 'PUTS AN APB OUT EVERY YEAR' FOR A MULTI-PURPOSE ATHLETE ON OFFENSE, BUT WHAT ABOUT THE DEFENSE?
Ohio State cornerbacks coach Kerry Coombs is quite confident that when Jordan Fuller reports to Columbus next month to begin his career as a Buckeye, the four-star recruit from Westwood, New Jersey will be in his meeting room.
“There are a lot of conversations about that, but Jordan Fuller is going to line up at corner,” Coombs said with a faint smile at the conclusion of spring practice in April. “We’re going to fight over him, but he’s going to line up at corner and Coach Coombs is going to be real happy to have him there and then we’ll see how it goes from there.”
Listed at 6-foot-1 and 195 pounds, Fuller has the size that makes him comparable to another recent Ohio State cornerback who hailed from New Jersey, Eli Apple, so it makes sense he would start at corner. But Fuller’s frame also gives him the potential to play a different position for the Buckeyes if need be. Fuller could also line up at safety and if the coaching staff feels he can add 20 to 25 pounds when he gets to campus — a la Darron Lee — a move to outside linebacker isn’t out of the question either.
Fuller is the perfect example of the do-it-all defensive athlete that’s becoming more and more of a thing in college football recruiting.
“I don’t think you target them, but I think when you find the exceptional athlete that you’re not sure what he is, you have real hard conversations about whether you take him or not,” Coombs said. “Darron Lee is a perfect example. We didn’t know what he was going to be, we just knew he was going to be something.”
For Ohio State, Lee is the poster boy for this type of player, but the Buckeyes have recruited quite a few on the defensive side of the ball since they landed Lee, who now plays for the New York Jets, in the 2013 class.
In 2014, both Sam Hubbard and Malik Hooker were listed as athletes in their recruiting profiles. Hubbard played safety in high school at Cincinnati Moeller and now, as he prepares to enter his third season at Ohio State, will start at defensive end. Hooker is projected to be one of the Buckeyes’ starting safeties in the fall.
Coombs pegged Jerome Baker as the defensive athlete in the 2015 class. Baker is now a linebacker, but coming out of Cleveland Benedictine he could have played safety, as well.
In the 2016 class, Fuller and Malik Harrison fit that same kind of mold.
Ohio State linebackers coach Luke Fickell believes there’s a bit more projection that goes into recruiting certain defensive players. Raekwon McMillan was a surefire linebacker coming out of high school; Lee was not.
“I think offensively sometimes it is a little more specific,” Fickell said. “Defensively we sometimes have got to project and you have got to do a Darron Lee, a guy who is a quarterback and say, ‘Can he play corner?’”
Entire article: http://www.elevenwarriors.com/ohio-...purpose-athlete-on-offense-but-what-about-the
Ohio State cornerbacks coach Kerry Coombs is quite confident that when Jordan Fuller reports to Columbus next month to begin his career as a Buckeye, the four-star recruit from Westwood, New Jersey will be in his meeting room.
“There are a lot of conversations about that, but Jordan Fuller is going to line up at corner,” Coombs said with a faint smile at the conclusion of spring practice in April. “We’re going to fight over him, but he’s going to line up at corner and Coach Coombs is going to be real happy to have him there and then we’ll see how it goes from there.”
Listed at 6-foot-1 and 195 pounds, Fuller has the size that makes him comparable to another recent Ohio State cornerback who hailed from New Jersey, Eli Apple, so it makes sense he would start at corner. But Fuller’s frame also gives him the potential to play a different position for the Buckeyes if need be. Fuller could also line up at safety and if the coaching staff feels he can add 20 to 25 pounds when he gets to campus — a la Darron Lee — a move to outside linebacker isn’t out of the question either.
Fuller is the perfect example of the do-it-all defensive athlete that’s becoming more and more of a thing in college football recruiting.
“I don’t think you target them, but I think when you find the exceptional athlete that you’re not sure what he is, you have real hard conversations about whether you take him or not,” Coombs said. “Darron Lee is a perfect example. We didn’t know what he was going to be, we just knew he was going to be something.”
For Ohio State, Lee is the poster boy for this type of player, but the Buckeyes have recruited quite a few on the defensive side of the ball since they landed Lee, who now plays for the New York Jets, in the 2013 class.
In 2014, both Sam Hubbard and Malik Hooker were listed as athletes in their recruiting profiles. Hubbard played safety in high school at Cincinnati Moeller and now, as he prepares to enter his third season at Ohio State, will start at defensive end. Hooker is projected to be one of the Buckeyes’ starting safeties in the fall.
Coombs pegged Jerome Baker as the defensive athlete in the 2015 class. Baker is now a linebacker, but coming out of Cleveland Benedictine he could have played safety, as well.
In the 2016 class, Fuller and Malik Harrison fit that same kind of mold.
Ohio State linebackers coach Luke Fickell believes there’s a bit more projection that goes into recruiting certain defensive players. Raekwon McMillan was a surefire linebacker coming out of high school; Lee was not.
“I think offensively sometimes it is a little more specific,” Fickell said. “Defensively we sometimes have got to project and you have got to do a Darron Lee, a guy who is a quarterback and say, ‘Can he play corner?’”
Entire article: http://www.elevenwarriors.com/ohio-...purpose-athlete-on-offense-but-what-about-the
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